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Singing
“
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
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― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
― The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that, in calamity, waxed fonder, in poverty clung closer. The words were set to a fine old air -- in themselves they were simple and sweet: perhaps, when read, they wanted force; when well sung, they wanted nothing. Shirley sang them well: she breathed into the feeling, softness, she poured round the passion, force: her voice was fine that ev
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― Shirley
― Shirley
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